Utopia is Now
Utopia is Now
Xavier Logan-Sievers
Reimagining Work & Taking the Unconventional Path | feat. Paul Millerd (Ex-McKinsey, Ex-BCG)
1 hour 14 minutes Posted Jul 9, 2021 at 4:49 pm.
Introduction
Why did Paul leave BCG & McKinsey to live a Pathless Path?
What path should you take in life?
Management Consulting & what made Paul leave it?
Paul coaches Shashwat over his career dilemma
What do work & career REALLY mean?
The false dichotomy of Work-Life Balance
Traditional vs Unconventional Lifepaths
How to embrace your weirdness and follow your heart?
What does Paul's life look like right now?
Philosophy of Life: Work vs Leisure
Future of Work
Bridging the gap between Education & Work
How to find your life path?
Do we owe any responsibility to our economy to continue traditional work?
Paul's views on Utopias
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Show notes
Paul Millerd is a Curious Human & Solopreneur, Writer, Host of the Reimagine Work Podcast, Teacher at Strategy U, Independent Consultant and Adviser (for companies like VIVO, Wrangler, Russel Reynolds Associates, Good Jobs Associates among many others), and a Career Coach for people who carve their own paths beyond the default path.
In his past life, Paul worked for companies like General Electric, McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, and studied at the University of Connecticut and MIT.
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Alan Watts was a British writer, speaker & philosopher
Roman Krznaric is an Australian public philosopher
Venkatesh Rao is an Indian-American author and consultant
Peter Albert David Singer AC is an Australian moral philosopher
John Rawls was an American political philosopher in the liberal tradition
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece 
Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy
Marcus Aurelius was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher
David J. Deming is an American Economist and Professor 
Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher
Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature 
Ryan Bourne is a British Economist and Author who works at Cato Institute
Credits
Art Work: The Road Not Taken - Michael Cook
Music Credits: A Journey Through The Universe – Lesion X